A Shared Vision for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships and Work-based Learning – Opinion of the Advisory Committee on vocational training (ACVT) addressed to the European Commission

Apprenticeships and other forms of work-based learning (WBL) are a springboard to jobs and active citizenship; they enhance a person’s employability and employment prospects through the acquisition of skills and competences that are needed on the labour markets and support personal development. Member States with well-developed apprenticeship systems as part of vocational education and training, underpinned by supporting factors such as a strong economic and industrial fabric and well-coordinated education and training and labour market structures, are usually characterised by low youth unemployment levels and high economic competitiveness. Shared responsibility is an essential element of apprenticeship and WBL.